Re: [ubuntu-uk] Symlinking to USB hard drives

2010-10-07 Thread Neil Greenwood
On 5 October 2010 19:11, Anton Piatek wrote: > On 5 Oct 2010 18:55, "Glen Mehn" wrote: >> On 04/10/10 20:25, Neil Greenwood wrote: >>> Hi all, >>> >>> I have a couple of matched USB hard drives that I use as part of my >>> backup strategy. At the moment they both have the same label, so they >>>

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Symlinking to USB hard drives

2010-10-05 Thread Anton Piatek
I use devices by id in my fstab to have unique mount points. Have a browse through /dev/ when the disk is connected Anton - Anton Piatek email: an...@piatek.co.uk blog/photos: http:// www.strangeparty.com pgp: [74B1FA37] (http:// www.strangeparty.com/anton.asc) No trees were destroyed in the sen

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Symlinking to USB hard drives

2010-10-05 Thread Glen Mehn
On 04/10/10 20:25, Neil Greenwood wrote: > Hi all, > > I have a couple of matched USB hard drives that I use as part of my > backup strategy. At the moment they both have the same label, so they > end up mounted at /media/backup. But this means I can't easily tell > which drive is which, and when

[ubuntu-uk] Symlinking to USB hard drives

2010-10-04 Thread Neil Greenwood
Hi all, I have a couple of matched USB hard drives that I use as part of my backup strategy. At the moment they both have the same label, so they end up mounted at /media/backup. But this means I can't easily tell which drive is which, and when I plug the second in, it gets mounted at /media/backu